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Re: Problems building unzip 6.10b

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On 06/04/13 10:33 pm, Dave Yeo thus wrote :
> Lewis Rosenthal wrote:
>> Getting back to the bz2_s.a thing: Cold you please enlighten me as to
>> where you got that? My understanding was that all I needed to do WRT
>> bzip2 was to "dump" the sources into bzip2\ and specify the option and
>> modify the make line, referencing the library. Clearly, I'm missing
>> something else.
>>
>> Thanks again, Dave!!
> 
> I built it sometime ago and just copied the file to bzip2\ from lib.
> Basic library stuff on OS/2. .a suffix can be either static or import
> library, usually aout with .lib being OMF. _s.a is used for static and
> _dll.a for import library with lib once again used for OMF. The linker
> is smart enough usually to convert aout to OMF using emxomf if there is
> a mismatch, you can't go the other way. Some versions of libtool such as
> the default ones will only create one or another, other ports will
> create both static and import with the different suffixes or somewhere
> in between.
> The linker prefers lib as the prefix but the library doesn't need it,
> this is for 8.3 name compatibility.
> If you just dumped the sources in bzip2/, it probably built a static
> lib. Static lib is just basically all the objects files concated
> together with a table of contents.
> Yuri's patches etc should be in
> http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/i386/SRPMS/unzip-6.0-5.oc00.src.rpm
> http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/i386/SRPMS/zip-3.0-5.oc00.src.rpm
> 
Ugh... I mirror the whole d-mn repo; now why didn't I see that? I'll
close my ticket. Thanks for pointing that out!!!!

Thanks for the great explanation of this stuff, too. My looking glass is
getting clearer by the minute!

Cheers/2

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Problems building unzip 6.10b Lewis Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2-de-sp-am-2rosenthals.com> - 2013-06-01 14:07 -0400
  Re: Problems building unzip 6.10b Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2013-06-01 12:07 -0700
  Re: Problems building unzip 6.10b "Andy" <abwillis1@yahoo.com> - 2013-06-01 23:30 +0000
    Re: Problems building unzip 6.10b Lewis Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2-de-sp-am-2rosenthals.com> - 2013-06-01 22:12 -0400
      Re: Problems building unzip 6.10b Lewis Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2-de-sp-am-2rosenthals.com> - 2013-06-01 22:41 -0400
        Re: Problems building unzip 6.10b Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2013-06-01 20:12 -0700
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    Re: Problems building unzip 6.10b Lewis Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2-de-sp-am-2rosenthals.com> - 2013-06-03 22:28 -0400
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      Re: Problems building unzip 6.10b Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2013-06-03 23:50 -0700
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          Re: Problems building unzip 6.10b Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 19:33 -0700
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